The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has unveiled plans for a comprehensive redesign of the four-block-long outdoor plaza that runs in front of its landmark Fifth Avenue façade, from 80th to 84th Streets in Manhattan. Rendering showing bird’s-eye view of proposed Fifth Avenue plaza redesign (image: OLIN) The plan also calls for the creation of new fountains—to replace the deteriorating ones that have been in use since they were built in the 1970s along with the existing plaza. The fountains will be ... Read More
MIT List Visual Arts Center presents Cheyney Thompson and Akram Zaatari. Tomorrow Everything Will Be Alright on February 10–April 8, 2012. Cheyney Thompson (b. 1975, Baton Rouge, LA) has made the technology, production, and distribution of painting the subject of his work for over a decade. Thompson employs rational structures, technological processes, and generative devices as part of “thinking through problems that organize themselves around the terms of painting.” With such a rigorous approach to the ... Read More
The Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) celebrated the opening of My Personal Universe Inner, on Saturday, February 4, 2012, the second facet of the spectacular solo show by acclaimed Chinese sculptor Zhan Wang. This tour-de-force of super-high-definition video, sculpture, installation and documentary explores the innermost secrets of the human imagination and the outermost reaches of the cosmos. The first facet of the exhibition deals with the visible, or outer, universe. Six oversized super-slow-motion ... Read More
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in ridgfield presents Kathryn Spence. Dirty and Clean an exhibition on view through June 10, 2012. Kathryn Spence, Short sharp notes, a long whistled trill on one pitch, clear phrases, 2010 Courtesy of the artist and Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco San Francisco-based artist Kathryn Spence is inspired by nature in the production of her sculptures and installations. Using found, dirty, and discarded materials in order to point to the invasion of the natural environment by ... Read More
The University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum presents Mark Dion. Troubleshooting an exhibition on view through March 3, 2012. For decades, Mark Dion has created drawings, prints, cabinets of curiosity, archaeological digs, and sprawling installations about the discrepancy between perceived knowledge and scientific inquiry, between common perception and advanced research. His works have addressed famous intellectuals in history, such as William Bartram, as well as important social and environmental ... Read More
The Portland Art Museum presents Tanja Alexia Hollander. Are You Really My Friend? open February 4, 2012 – June 17, 2012. Tanja Hollander, June Fitzpatrick, Portland, Maine, 2011, Archival pigment print. Courtesy of Carroll & Sons, Boston, MA. Facebook friendships exist in the nebulous world of cyberspace. Social networking creates a forum where we may connect or reconnect deeply with dear friends or become acquainted with new ones on a superficial level. What happens when we reach across real time ... Read More
The Fuller Craft Museum presents Dan Dailey. Working Method an exhibition on view February 18, 2012 – September 3, 2012. Dan Dailey, Jazz Jungle, 1995. Glass, Vitrolite, patinated gold-plated bronze. Collection of the artist. Dan Dailey, the first graduate student of Dale Chihuly, has pursued his own unique voice in glass, from his singular work in antique Vitrolite sheet glass to complex constructions of blown glass and metal. This retrospective exhibition focuses on the various methods and techniques ... Read More
The Fuller Craft Museum presents Mens et Manus. Folded Paper of MIT an exhibition on view February 4, 2012 – April 29, 2012. Erik and Martin Demaine, Green Waterfall, 2011 Mens et Manus is an introduction to the work of MIT students, alumni, and faculty who have made the school a hub for a stimulating community of artists in folded paper. Paper folding—or origami as it is also popularly known—is the practice of transforming paper into complex representational and abstract three-dimensional sculpture ... Read More
Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion presents School of Art + Design Bachelor of Fine Arts an exhibition on view May 6 through 13, 2012. In this annual exhibition, BFA graduates present a range of art and design studio practices that illustrate new and established technologies in material and virtual realms. The exhibition gives public form to an undergraduate curriculum committed to the arts as both a distinct and necessary approach to understanding, as well as an expression of diverse human experiences. ... Read More
The Oakland Museum of California presents Space-Light-Structure. The Jewelry of Margaret De Patta an exhibition on view February 4, 2012 – May 13, 2012. Presented in conjunction with the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, the Oakland Museum of California presents a retrospective exhibition on the work of pioneer jeweler Margaret De Patta. A seminal figure in the American Modernist Jewelry movement, De Patta was born in 1903 and moved to the Bay Area in 1923. Distinguished as one of the few American ... Read More
The McLoughlin House unit of Fort Vancouver National Historic Site will re-open to the public on Saturday, February 11, 2012 at 10:00 a.m. The site’s opening will showcase some exciting new programs: a new exhibit of historic nineteenth century quilts; a hands-on demonstration of rug-hooking, and some big changes inside the McLoughlin House. Two 1840s quilts from a private collection adorn the girls bedroom at McLoughlin House, HEIDI PIERSON, NPS Through the end of March, the McLoughlin House hosts a new ... Read More
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